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...philosopher recognized what he felt the celebration's speakers did not--and what the University as a collective institution may seem occasionally to forget--that a school is nothing without its people, both the ghosts of those who have been here in the past (the distant dead and the alive but graduated) and the red-blooded individuals who make up our current community--students, faculty, staff and administrators alike. We sometimes ignore the ghosts in the bustle of our lives, but we also act independently on their advice, needing no ghosts come from the grave to tell us about...
Most of the anti-war protests of the Vietnam era were a distant memory. Even major national events like Watergate failed to generate as much reaction from students...
...short not to be enjoying what you're doing. Allow me to bust a little Landmarks of World Architecture on you. The Harvard Mentality suggests the Japanese aesthetic of a foreground, middle ground and background. But there is no transitory material between. We are forever imagining what that distant vista would be like to experience for ourselves, but we must focus on the here and now, and how that may be able to help us in the immediate future, forever deferring the mountain view for the shrubs we are perched among. We fail to see the chasm that divides...
...Most classes and laboratories took place jointly in Harvard classrooms, often necessitating breakneck bike trips from our distant location in the Radcliffe Quad...
...While memories of distant classes may have faded, the strange social intersections between Harvard Yard and Radcliffe Yard created a indelible mark on the classes' collective memory...